Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London Wednesday, June 9th 2021 15.00-15.45pm BST The Synaptica team are taking part with our clients The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in the next Bite-sized virtual event...
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Things in Threes There is an expression that good things come in threes. There is also an expression that bad things come in threes. In Semantic Web standards, specifically RDF, the atomic data entity is a tripartite structure called a semantic...
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The Semantic Web As a taxonomist and employee of a company which publishes taxonomy and ontology management software, semantics and the Semantic Web are never far from mind. Semantics is “the study...
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I wrote, not quite a year ago, a short post about some new words, phrases, and idioms emerging from the then-new pandemic in the context of controlled vocabularies. The point of…
Graphite KOS 4.0 Well, what a long, strange trip 2020 has been. We made it! Here we are! Synaptica continues to work diligently on updating and improving our ontology management software, Graphite, and we’ve made a lot of additions...
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Consider the small hierarchical structure shown at right; you might find something like it in any number of product, e-commerce, or indexing taxonomies: Although this structure seems reasonable at first...
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The Solo Taxonomist I don’t know about you, but in the early days of taxonomy efforts at organizations I’ve worked at, the role of the taxonomist often stood alone. Of course, there wouldn’t be...
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It Is What It Is As a taxonomist, when I hear the expression “it is what it is,” I’m tempted to define the subject (“it”) of this statement as categorically clear. It is what...
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KMWorld Connect The annual KMWorld Conference went virtual this year as KMWorld Connect from November 16th - 19th with the pre-conference workshops running November 12th-13th. The co-located conferences, Enterprise Search & Discovery, Taxonomy Boot Camp, and Text Analytics Forum were...
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Ren Pope is the Owner and Principal of Info-Do based out of Washington DC. He has over 25 years of leadership and vision in the information science field. Ren has held various...
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